Re Justice/Equity … I’d encourage you to add an international component. It seems like the focus of your language is on U.S. families/workers — but an important component of climate legislation in a wealthy, industrialized country like the U.S. is also living up to our responsibility as a nation that has done much to create this problem. That means we should be setting aside funds we can use to assist other nations as they adopt clean technologies and prepare for climate changes.

“Eliminate Loopholes. Don’t use methods that haven’t worked to reduce emissions or that contain loopholes.”

I guess you could include that in “solve the problem” but what we’ve seen in Europe is that emissions are going up despite targets being set because the system they’ve put in place is full of loopholes. Scientficly robust targets are patently useless if you can appear to meet targets while actually exploiting the rules of the system to skirt the requirements.

This isn’t some side issue of concern folks! Inaction masquerading as action has been the dominant feature of climate action in most of the industrialized world.

Sadly, most some of the big environmental groups are supporting policies like the Lieberman Warner bill that have these loopholes - both here and (to a much lesser extent) in Europe.

I think all of us agree to these principles like these in theory, but in practice, many groups consistently ignore them. We do have differences in values across the specturm I think lack of COMMITMENT to even lowest common denominator values like these (in the face of perceived political expediency) is much more of a problem.

Example: In the anti-war movement you don’t have rallies and email calls-to-action for “50% out of Iraq!”. Yet parts of the climate movement do the same for “50% of IPCC targets!”….